A misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct against Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby for his part in an altercation at an Indiana bar was conditionally dismissed yesterday.

The dismissal is contingent on successful completion of a diversion program. All that’s required for successful completion of the program is for Roby to avoid legal trouble until Aug. 16, 2014. The pretrial hearing scheduled for Monday has been canceled.

Roby was charged with misdemeanor battery after he was accused of striking a security guard in the chest. That was based on eyewitness accounts. But video evidence seen by the second police officer on the scene and included in a supplemental report showed that Roby was pushed three times and only “lunged” at a security guard.

Aided by that supplemental report, the charge was reduced last week from battery to disorderly contact, and prosecutors then offered to have the charge dismissed if Roby agreed to complete a diversion program.

Despite the prospect of a dismissal, coach Urban Meyer announced that Roby will be suspended for the season opener on Aug. 31 against Buffalo. Roby was an all-Big Ten player last year and is regarded as a likely first-round pick if he enters next year’s NFL draft, which he has said he will.